LOL... except for the breakaway those look like fluke shots...

Looks like it's going to be a loooooonnnnnnnggg season.

Jannik Hansen - out 4 - 6 weeks
Daniel Sedin - out 4 - 6 weeks
Sami Salo - out 4 - 6 weeks
Demitra - rehab going poorly
Schneider - ineligible to play until game #11 of the season, due to being placed on the LTIR

Hey, at least your favourite team isn't 0-5-1 without a first round draft pick  

If/when Toronto loses on Saturday, I expect massive changes during their off week. Brian Burke is too proud to let Boston have a Top 5 pick.

For your viewing pleasure. A thing of beauty.

And the injury troubles continue. Schneider set to make his debut tonight, but Wellwood breaks his foot yesterday. Edler hurts his shoulder, don't know if he'll be gone. Demitra's career might be over, his shoulder is that bad. I thought we might be in cap trouble this year, but now we can hardly dress a team.

http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=296381

Luongo with fractured ribs, will miss a week for sure, maybe more. It's almost humorous at this point.

So now that we're a month into the season here's a few things of what I've seen in general, expected and unexpected.

Expected

Pittsburgh being on top of the Eastern Conference. Let's see how long they can keep this lead especially with NY and Washington right behind them.

Washington running away with the Southeast division...again.

San Jose staying close to the top of the Western conference.

Chicago living up to the hype and being on top of the central division. Although I do think they might be overhyped, who knows.

Unexpected

Colorado taking us all by surprise and sitting on top of the entire league. These guys have a really good lineup. Their goalie is playing out of his mind, but that might be their achilles heel as well. If he goes on a cold streak or gets injured they might be in a bit of trouble.

Detroit struggling in the standings. It's early though and they're Detroit so no one should even think of counting them out at all.

LA/Phoenix/Anaheim for swapping spots in the Pacific division. LA and Pho are showing their muscles here while the Ducks are struggling. I thought they'd be second or third in the division, not last.

Toronto being at the bottom. Ok while not a Leafs fan I'm rooting pretty hard for them to get some sort of win streak going. Wasn't expecting them to be this low at all. Hopefully they actually start playing some defense and don't leave it to their rookie goalie to win games for them.

On a side note I don't want to jinx anything but it's looking like Ovechkin is on track to score 50 in 50 (maybe even in less). It'd be pretty sweet if he does it, not sure what anyone else thinks of this.

Tsk, tsk........you jinxed him!

Saw someone make a team full of players who are injured. Quite a few big guys out right now. Maybe it's just me, but it seems a lot more players are injured this year compared to other years.

Ovechkin - Malkin - Hossa
Kovalchuk - Staal - Gagne
Sedin - Savard - Toews
Briere - Richards - Spezza
Franzen, Elias

Markov - Weber
Rafalski - Souray
Gonchar - Volchenkov
Commodore

Luongo
Giguere
Turco

Awesome 5-0 win last night by the Sharks over the defending Cup champions - The Penguins. Offensive contributions from all lines, Shelley owning, Nabby being awesome and Dan Boyle being a complete and utter BEAST......